The issue is that your criticisms of C range from superficial, to incorrect, to straw men. > Dismissing Go and co as "hype" I didn't read OP as dismissing Go

The issue is that your criticisms of C range from superficial, to incorrect, to straw men. > Dismissing Go and co as "hype" I didn't read OP as dismissing Go &c, just an acknowledgement that they are getting a lot of attention, along with their tooling. OP didn't say what he was using C/C++ for either, so it's weak to make a comparison where none was implied eg, JSON API. That entire post was a very roundabout way to quibble about the use of the word "hype" by going on an otherwise unprovoked diatribe against C.